Additional
Information.
Current
Projects 
Fairchild FJN3303R
Delivery
Need a transistor? Ore.e Ref.
has a few units to spare and we are committed to
delivering you the required FJN3303R NPN
transistors. The chips will packed is protective
electrostatistic materials and mailed to you for
free. We aim to keep the transistors available
until year 2121 or as long as the stock lasts.
More on
project web-pages.
Ore.e Ref. was contracted in 2021
to produce an artwork for the Pori Art Museum
"Performing the Fringe'' exhibition and produced
a series of engravings for the Kannistonkallio
quarry. The engravings were 1:1 copies of
existing quarry graffiti and carved to the
granite bedrock using chisels. In total some 45
graffitis were copied. More on project web-pages.
Send your broken socks to be
repaired in New York City. After your socks are
fixed, they will be washed in the East River,
photographed against the Manhattan skyline and
returned back to you. Fixed and clean! The text
NYSRE18 (New York Sock Repair & Exchange)
will be embroidered on the repaired socks to
commemorate the repair. The service pilot is
operational between Aug-Dec 2018. Details on
project
web-pages
The Berlin Wall Distortion is
based on the Electra distortion circuit. The
rotary switch is used to guide the incoming
signal towards three different capacitors. The
first setting goes to Berlin Tegel Airport and
emphasizes treble, setting two passes RAF Gatow
airport emphasizing bass moderately and setting
three passes trough Tempelhof Airport and it
emphasises bass tones heavily. More on project
web-pages
Sound
of Work: Blacksmith edition 1 Table of
Content
The sound pack consists over 200
samples recorded at Jesse Sipola’s smithy close
to Turku, Finland. The samples are aimed for
music and sound-design. Sipola followed a click
track (80bpm, 4/4) while performing various work
phases using the tools he likes best. The
samples have been chopped into bar/beat lengths,
which makes them suitable for blues-projects out
of the box. Enjoy, use, remix and share these
sounds of labor. Download on project web-pages
Hevoslinja /
Trans-Horse (2014-2021) Table of
Content
Trans-Horse project studies
contemporary horse culture and advances travel
by horse between the cities. A finnhorse The
Awaited Son (fi. Toivottu Poika)
was hired for the usage of the project to
further expand the experience. As a highlight of
the project The Riders of Ore.e Refineries
(Yli-Vakkuri, Sipola, Karppinen
& Kylmälä) connected the cities of
Helsinki to Turku via horseback. More on the project web-pages
(Mostly Finnish).
A public artwork commissioned from
Ore.e Ref. by Akaa Gymnasium rector Tuovi
Ronkainen. The multipart artwork Seli-seli
seppele (Loose translation. Bla-bla
Wreath) is installed in the main staircase
of the Akaa Gymnasium & Toijala
co-educations school building. The artwork is
constructed from school memorabilia and outdated
teaching equipment. The production of the
artwork intertwined with arbitrary school
activities and took a year to complete. More on
the artwork web-pages
(Mostly Finnish).
Is property a burden for You or
those dear to You? Ownership Renunciation
Services – ORS can be used to renounce ownership
rights to property. It is useful when renouncing
ownership of chattels, immovable property and
intellectual concepts. The service is offered in
LITE and PRO versions. Learn more on the service
web-pages.
We are searching for the
perfect ingredients for our first cosmetic
product. If everything goes accordingly the
"Anti-Imperial Moustache Wax" will ultimately
be made exclusively from materials specific to
the Baltic Sea Drainage Basin environment. To
achieve this Ore.e Ref. has launched a testing
program targeting Gentles with Handlebar
Moustaches. Small batches of moustache wax is
delivered for selected tester who are expected
to provide feedback on the product. The
project works as a starting point in an effort
to understand the concept of "ecogeographical
thinking" better and to experiment with male
facial hair aesthetics. More on wax
web-pages.
Time to Your
Door / Speaking Clock (Aikapalvelut) Table of
Content
"Time to Your Door" services
deliver the exact time to the location of Your
choosing. Customer service personnel arrives to
the site you specify, to announce the time
according to your request. "Time to Your Door"
is a luxurious way of keeping time. The service
is suitable for maintaining your everyday
working rhythm and as a featured service of
ceremonial occasions. The service is currently
available exclusively in Helsinki but also
includes "Speaking Clock" features. More on the
product web-pages.
NO-CHAIR-DESIGN Challenge
(NCD-C) Table of
Content
28.07.2011 Ore.e Ref.
challenged designers of the world to
NOT design
chairs. We believe that the world already has
enough chairs. Designing new ones only takes
time away from renovating the ones we already
have. Full details on the project is found on
the official campaign
web-pages. This is
the first project Ore.e Ref. has utilized video
to promote its cause. The project had it's
highlights 2012.
Africa
without Cecil John Rhodes Series Table of
Contentx
Celebrating five years of
successful business and original research
Ore.e Ref. is glad to offer a collection on
imagery and sounds for your enjoyment.
Follow link and
download .gif animations and mobile
ringtones. The artwork is based on
Edward Linley Sambournes "The Rhodes
Colossus: Caricature of Cecil John Rhodes"
which was published 10 December 1892 in
"Punch" (British weekly magazine of humor
and satire 1841-1992/2002) after Mr. Rhodes
announced plans for a telegraph line and
railroad from Cape Town to Cairo.
Usage of Image
see: O:ESRek1.0 - License
We live in times during which
exabytes of digital data is processed daily.
Libraries are being digitized and personal photo
albums shared online, with no guarantee of the
services sustainability – Will they be here for
the next 10 years? Most devises storing digital
data are not designed to last trough
times. Hard-drives get corrupted and computers
capable to interpret data on hard-drives require
electricity and computer skills to work.
Ironically information on how to use computers
is commonly stored in .pfd/.html manuals inside
the hard-drives. Even physical manuals are
printed on poor paper, using lousy inks.
A bigger issue is that mechanically produced
reproductions don't require labor from the end
copier and are incapable of adding intrinsic
value to the storage medium. This means that
in time, manuals and other texts, images etc.
which are not made beautiful will be used for
something else (possibly for heating the
house). As a solution to data preservation
issues Ore.e Ref. is working to convert
selected digital documents into physical
manuscripts. The work is done by hand on acid
free papers, using the same inks one can find
in pre-industrial books. To test these ideas,
the front page of the most read online
publication of Finland was undigitized (un-di)
in 2008 and in 2016 we organized a clinic
& workshop called Digital-to-Tangible for
the Rescue Museum organized by Päivi Raivio at
Temporary.fi. See this
sales
receipt as an example of our
professional services.
Please contact us to learn if we can help you
in converting important digital data into
tangible forms. Contact only by phone: 00 358
50 57 29743 (00=+ in local calls).
An effort to notify future
generations of the Onkalo NUCLEAR WASTE
repository. During a social project
You have the opportunity to send a message
addressed to the civilization which will
discover the Onkalo - Nuclear Waste
repository being build at: 61°14′13″N
21°26′27″E (Finland). A message selected
using a curated selection system will be
carved to the bedrock close to the site.
Ore.e Ref. is also working on an Early
Warning System (EWS). EWS's devices are
navigational instruments installed some
hundreds of kilometers around the
repository site. Learn more on
project web-pages.
Before the year 2038 Ore.e - Ref. Crew
will make a tour from Nordkapp to Cape
Town (and back) using low-carbon
transport vehicles. During this tour we
will salvage material to construct
a human powered dynamo (capable to
produce electricity for a laptop running
a server 24/7) from different kinds of
recycled and Ore.e Ref. style refined
materials.
During the tour we will have the
opportunity to fetch materials our
clients have ordered from Europe, Asia
and Africa. So if YOU are looking for
specific materials from a specific
region of the world the Legacy Tour >
2038 is a good opportunity get them –
with out causing carbon pollution. Our
route in Africa will take us in the
footsteps of the telegram-line Cecil
John Rhodes build to connect Cairo and
Cape-Town early 1900. We will map its
route and attempt to salvage pieces of
this infrastructure.
The Tour will take place before 2038
(Hence the name "> 2038"). We
are looking for investors wanting
to contribute to this tour and clients
in need of material from specific
regions of the world on route from
Nordkapp (Norway) to Cape Town (The
Republic of South-Africa). Contact
only by phone: 00 358 50 57 29743 (00=+
in local [Finland] calls).
The
Mission of Ore.e Refineries. Table of
Content
Ore.e Refineries is a public
utility company advocating sustainable design
and egalitarian work culture. When founded in
2007 we focused on producing a copperplate
suitable for printing fine arts. Currently Ore.e
Ref. is offering its services to
craftspeople and organization who wish to have a
more personal relationship with the materials
they use. We encourage people who use metals or
ready-made material in their work to take note
of the technology and ethical backgrounds how
these materials are collected and refined. Ore.e
Ref. is a manifesto for all handicrafts and the
intrinsic value of handmade things.
Detailed
information on the backgrounds of the project
can be found in
Yli-Vakkuri's
blog and
a pictorials from exhibition displaying our work
in the context of art
Voipaala (2009),
Taidehalli (2010),
AaltoEE (2011),
Jyväskylä-Madrid (2012),
Akaa (2013),
SIC (2014),
Mänttä (2015) and
Akusmata (2017).
We are working hard to build Ore.e Ref. into a
sustainable crafts organization. Currently we
have aimed our services and goods for designers,
artist, artworkers and artisans with very
specific crafts and metal related needs –
Possibly producing unique items. We can also
scale our services to meet the needs of light
industry. To reach our aims we are working in an
ecologically and socially in an sustainable
manner. We sacrifice short term profit for long
term sustainability.
Our mission is to distribute wealth to
craftspeople in all corners of the world
. We are
researching how to design a robust and
scale-able system of goods production, which
will be able to function in the true
post-industrial era. A key tag for this project
is the
archaeology of the future, which
as a term defines our approach to design. Ore.e
Ref. invites you to speculate on the traces
technologically driven cultures leave behind for
the true post-industrial era.
Let's rid ourselves of
hierarchies: The designer, planner and laborer
work the same. We exercise equal pay.
Each
member of a working group gets the same fee.
By paying each member the same fee, we save
valuable time and advance egalitarian work
culture. When we started in 2007 we had a a plan
to share
20% of profits made
with any Ore.e Ref. related object sales trough
The Kiva
micro-finance system (
www.kiva.org).
This arrangement has not worked well for us as
during the first 15 years we only
sold
one
item. The modest profits of this sale have
not been shared. As sales catch on we will post
news of micro-finance investments here.
In order to share profits we have also developed
a licensing system "
O:ESRek1.0
license" [
esrek] which forces
(or as we like to think
invites)
organizations to use the Kiva system, if they
want to use any media owned by Ore.e Ref. For
more details on how the distribution of wealth
is made possible trough copyright policies see
the FOR PROFIT segment of the
esrek
license. As of 2022 no one to our knowledge has
used the materials licensed this way.
As a potential client or
investor you might like to see a
timeline of Ore.e Ref. which
presents its development between 2007-2017. This
scope goes to show that we are a stable company.
Fueled with passion for arts and crafts and the
ambition to develop sustainable systems of
production.
"Craftspeople eat
agile for breakfast ... scrum, scrum, scrum."
Funding for projects is applied both on the
private and public sector. Sipola is running his
own craft company
Oshipala -
Air Hammer Studio
(corporate name "Oshipala"), the services of
which are presented on
company web-page.
Yli-Vakkuri works as a freelancer (sole
proprietor n.
2394036-1
FI) for multiple clients. Together they
have over 40 years of experience as
entrepreneurs in the fields of fine-arts and
crafts.
Rates and prices
for services and products:
Everything is negotiable and
information is free. Do not hesitate to ask for
an offer. As an example the starting
prices for
copperplates suitable
for printmaking is 80€ (+23% vat) (
including
worldwide shipping) but prices are
dependent on the plates size and the raw
materials needed for its production. Prices for
the services we offer (
DT2 and
manufacturing of items, raw materials etc.) are
not fixed as they depend on how demanding your
project is.
There are other
possibilities to solve issues with money:
We also accept ARTMONEY as payment. Artmoney is
an international art project presenting a
global, alternative currency. 20% of payment can
be made using this currency. Learn more on their
on their
web-pages.
Between 2011-13 we also accepted BITCOINS as
payment.
Our
Bitcoin Address: (Forever closed)
Am
I allowed too use material linked to this
project in my publication?
Yes. Feel free
to use material in the The
PRESS kit (2010-2012) and on the Ore.e
Ref. web-site (if not otherwise licensed) if
you follow the O:ESRek1.0 - License shown
below, with the following details:
OWNER =
Ore.e Refineries
OWNER(s)
web-site =
http://www.oree.storijapan.net/
OWNER(s)
pre-selected entrepreneur = You may select
an entrepreneur of your liking.
NOTIFY = with
an SMS to 00 358 50 57 29743 (00=+ in local
[Finland] calls)
Any
other usage must be checked with Ore.e
Refineries - Management and Sales -> See
Staff for further
contact details.
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Licenses:
Direct link:
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